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Zenity is a program often used in scripts to display graphical boxes that very often prompt for user input. It is a rewrite of the old, but still used gdialog program, and has a 'gdialog wrapper script' so that it can be used in older scripts.

A zenity message saying "downloading wine-unity3d-installer (N/A MiB)" will sometimes appear while I am doing something and just show a flashing download bar forever.
I can force close it but a few ...

I made a simple indicator using cappind script which is based on zenity -
Webupd8 article
Capind page
I want to change the text of the list according to some condition..
Like, if the contents are - ...

Every time I connect to the internet Zenity flashes that little popup for about a second (because the download is apparently 1 mb) a couple of times. First of all, why does it keep installing the same ...

I am using Zenity tool to pop-up an entry dialog box. But how can i store the value entered into the text box to a variable ? Now, the string is being printed onto the console itself. I want it to be ...

I have this small bash script which helps use Infinality font rendering options via a more user-friendly Zenity window: http://gnomefiles.org/content/show.php/Infinality+Style+Changer?content=161984
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I'm writing my own script to download multiple items (simultaneously, one item per command) using wget and I need a progress bar. I currently utilize zenity --progress for my progress bars, but the ...

Hi guys I am currently trying to implement zenity progress bar to my while loop, however I noticed that my variable which are meant to be incremented did not increment. Here is a sample test script I ...

I am having a problem writing a script for 'zenity.' My intention is to have a comment selected randomly from a list and then displayed on the screen for the user to see. To be honest, I would like ...

In Ubuntu 13.04 yad and Zenity notification icons aren't showed in Unity.
I have written a script to use notification icon to alert me about lftp download progress.
Is there any alternative that it ...

I found out about byzanz-record which can record your desktop and get the result as a gif, flash or other, I want to make a GUI for personal use but I can't seem to get it working up until now I only ...

I would like the window produced by zenity to be configured so it is always on top. There does not appear to be an option to enable this. Can someone suggest a source change to the zenity code so that ...

When Ubuntu was using gnome I was able to create a popup banner like the banner below before the login screen using zenity in the /etc/gdm/Init/Default. The line of code would be like this:
if [ -f ...

Looking for a program or a way to print onto my bank checks in Ubuntu. I don't want to use GNUCash or KMyMoney as those are bank register program's and it's too much work to open one of those each and ...

I'm writing a script using zenity. But zenity 3.4.0 has a bug (has been fixed in latest Ubuntu versions), it returns exit code 139 instead of 0 or 1. But I need to use it in scenarios where the bug is ...

I was very satisfied with Ubuntu Customization kit on Ubuntu previous versions but with 12.04, it leads to crash zenity and disappear the GUI and nothing occur.I tried the old version of this package ...

I try to open a file in gedit with the file-selection option of zenity. It's very easy to do it for file that i can access in normal mode, but I wanna open too some configuration files (as for exemple ...

I'd like to have a message pop up in response to various system events, mostly in order to be able to set reminders for myself from a shell session. There are a few ways to do this; zenity seems to ...